Philosophy Faculty

AB, Harvard College. PhD, Columbia University. Fellowships at École Normale Supérieure and the University of Munich. Interests in philosophy and history of science, history of modern philosophy, and the Enlightenment. Author of The Treatise of the Three Impostors and the Problem of Enlightenment, as well as of articles on Kant, Descartes, and other topics. Contributor to the new Kant-Lexikon. Has taught at the Collège International de Philosophie, St. John’s College, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, and elsewhere. SLC, 2007–

BA, Cornell University. MA, PhD, Pennsylvania State University. Interests in Greek philosophy, moral and political philosophy, and philosophy and literature; author of many books, most recently The Autobiography of Philosophy, a translation of Aristotle’s On Poetics, and Wonderlust: Ruminations on Liberal Education; member, editorial board, Ancient Philosophy; lecturer, essayist, and reviewer. SLC, 1977–

BA, University of Connecticut. MA, St. John’s College. MA, PhD, Tulane University. Interests include the Greek understanding of providence and its role in the emergence of philosophy, as well as the reception of Socratic philosophy in modernity in the works of Descartes, Rousseau, and Nietzsche. Recently published an article entitled, “Hesiod: Man, Law and Cosmos,” and currently working on essays on Nietzsche’s Twilight of the Idols and topics in early Greek thought. SLC, 2013–

PhD, University of Toronto. Special interests in Hegel and his predecessors (modern philosophy) and successors (19th- and 20th-century continental philosophy), post-Hegelian Russian philosophy, and philosophical problems of intellectual diversity and pluralistic understanding. SLC, 2004–